#168 — The Mandelbulb
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It's the Mandelbulb! What happens when you take the original fractal (The Mandelbrot Set) and extend it into 3D space. And how do you visualize it in Processing (Java) as a point cloud?
Original 2009 post outlining the math behind the MandelBulb fractal.
Link to the Processing Foundation homepage
Wikipedia entry on the Mandelbulb
The PeasyCam library is a simple mouse-driven camera for Processing.
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This observable notebook was used as the basis for the Processing raymarching examples featured in the video.
Inigo Quilez's video of the Mandelbulb
This side track is a collection of videos related to supershapes that use spherical coordinates and superformulas.
- Editing
by Mathieu Blanchette
- Animations
by Jason Heglund